Kirsten Dunst reveals son's 'extremely frightening' health scare during filming overseas
Kirsten Dunst has revealed her son James suffered a medical emergency while the family were in Budapest where the actress was filming a movie earlier this year.
Dunst, 43, shared the terrifying experience with Town & Country in a recent interview.
She says the family had relocated to Budapest in January where they planned to stay for the duration of filming her new movie The Entertainment System Is Down.
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Dunst, 43, shared the terrifying experience with Town & Country in a recent interview. FilmMagic
The Hollywood star shares children Ennis, seven, and James, four, with husband, actor Jesse Plemons, 37.
They even enrolled their boys in school there. However James became ill and his health quickly began deteriorating.
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Dunst shares children Ennis, seven, and James, four, with husband, actor Jesse Plemons, 37. Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Im
Dunst didn't give details about the nature of the health crisis, however did say it was an "extremely frightening" time.
Following the incident, Plemons took their children home to Los Angeles where they have family support while she completed filming before also returning home.
She added that everyone is fine now".
Dunst likened the incident to the Final Destination movie series in which characters try to escape impending doom.
"I have never seen that movie. But I know the concept. That's how it feels to be a mother at times," she said.
She said the frightening experience "brought us together as a family in such a deeper way".
Dunst likened the incident to the Final Destination movie series. WWD via Getty Images
She said the frightening experience 'brought us together as a family in such a deeper way'. Corbis via Getty Images
Their next trip will be to the Bahamas for a holiday.
Dunst said this is at James' request as he wanted to "go to a beach where my sandcastles won't wash away".
Dunst and Plemons met on the set of the TV series Fargo and began dating in 2016.
"We fell in love creatively first," Dunst told the LA Times in 2021.
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"He was like a creative soul mate to me and the way we both work. On Fargo, I knew after two weeks."
'We fell in love creatively first,' Dunst told the LA Times in 2021. FilmMagic
The couple were engaged in 2017 and welcomed their sons in 2018 and 2021 before marrying in Jamaica in 2022.
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